The KCR Nutritional Kits initiative, which aims to combat the prevalence of anaemia among pregnant women, will be spread to all Telangana districts, said Health Minister T Harish Rao at the launch of the flagship program on Wednesday.
The Health Minister, along with Assembly Speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy and Minister for Roads and Buildings Vemula Prashant Reddy, launched the nutritional scheme at Kamareddy, saying all efforts would be made to broaden the scheme and urging pregnant women to consume the supplements rather than sharing them with family members.
“Series of measures taken in the last 8 years has helped Telangana to reduce the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) from 93 fatalities for every one lakh live births to 43 in Telangana. At present, we are third in the country just behind Maharashtra and Kerala. Through KCR nutritional kits initiative, we want to overtake both of them,” he said.
According to reports, the KCR nutritional kit was launched in nine of the most vulnerable districts, including Adilabad, Kumram Bheem Asifabad, Bhadradri Kothagudem, Mulugu, Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Vikarabad, Nagarkurnool, Kamareddy, and Gadwal, where anaemia among pregnant women was higher than the state average of 53%.
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Harish Rao also went ahead and criticized the opposition parties. “BRS is doing nutritional politics but the opposition parties are doing partition politics. They want to divide people and spread hatred among people in Telangana. Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao is focusing on developmental agenda while the opposition is preoccupied with divisionary politics,” he said.
Sabitha Indra Reddy, Errabelli Dayakar Rao, Indrakaran Reddy, Balka Suman, Puvvada Ajay Kumar, Satyavathi Rathod, Srinivas Goud, and Niranjan Reddy, senior MLAs and Ministers, launched the scheme in the remaining eight districts and were virtually present at the inaugural event.
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